Suppose you are asked a question. Something trivial, like do you put on and tie each shoe, or do you put on each and then tie each. Do you occasionally find that when answering the question, your answer is incorrect? Perhaps you answered that you put on each shoe then tie each one, but then subsequently learn that you actually put on and tie one shoe before preforming the same process on the other?
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I do because I find the question so trivial that I don't care. Then when I realize I was wrong, the fact I didn't know something so trivial bothers me the rest of the day.
Fulishsage
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July 30, 2018
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Sounds like we or I never pay attention and just answered what I really thought that I did! Interesting question!
MichelleGar1
Level 9
July 29, 2018
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But is the answer, not limited to donning of shoes, necessarily accurate? I can think consciously about idiosyncratic behaviors and come to a conclusion, yet when subconsciously preforming and act, like tying shoes, realize that my original assumption about my behavior was incorrect. How well do we actually know ourselves?
@NothinnXpreVails we don't know ourselves well, we do things differently each day and don't realize it thinking that we are doing the same routine. Like we can do this with our eyes closed. I know that each day even though I am going to the same place for work, my commute is different, the way I do my work isn't the same as last week but different. I don't realize it and think it's the same
You lost me.
gigihein
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July 29, 2018
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What I’m asking is how accurate is our knowledge about our own idiosyncrasies.
@NothinnXpreVails oh ok.
If you are "The French" I am not answering any of your coin flips.
GipsyOfNewSpain
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July 29, 2018
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